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MAYBE IS THE MEDITERRANEAN AIR? Dimitris finished his first season in charge of AS Roma, and it went very nicely, proving that the gamble that he board signing him took paid off. The first win of our campaign came against Genoa, then we manage to dra...
THE ETERNAL CITY After the Greek Empire came the Romans, and so Dimitris Kalinakis has moved from the Akropolis to the Coloseum! He will manage AS Roma in their centenary season! The team is currently sitting in 18th, and the board want us to fi...
DOING THE JOB, AND DOING IT WELL Let's see how Dimitris has behaved on his other job, with Greece. We have been chasing, in the last year, the qualification to the European Championship that will be held in Galles and Scotland.Our group was fai...
CHASING THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE DREAM The third campaign of Dimitris on the bench of Panetolikos starts with two huge games against Malmo. Last season we got kicked out of the Champions League at the very beginning, hopefully we can improve! A supe...
BY THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH We have finally reached the end of our season. Juventus ended up winning the Europa League and AEK won the Greek Cup, so we can say that we got eliminated from the best in both competitions. But now it's out turn t...
Thank you WAFC Red, we will see how it went today! CUPS We, somewhat purposedly, ignored the Greek Cup. We had another deep run, we go vengance against Olympiakos in the quarter finals, but lost to another big rival, AEK, that had already beaten...
DEFENDING THE TITLE For the first time in his career, Dimitris had to act as a Champion and defend the title he won, surprisingly, last season. This campaign is somewhat more forgiving, since an additional team will qualify for Champions League footb...
Hi Kris, Panionios got promoted in the second season from the third division. If you want to play with them you might have to search for a database that unlock Greek's third division, but I don't know where to find it. HELLENIC MASTERCLASSLet's pause...
ON TOP OF MOUNT OLYMPUS In the previous update I told you this was a busy summer. And you thought I was referring to a simple European qualification walk? Nah, something much bigger happened: Gustavo Poyet left the greek national team bench o move to...
BUSY SUMMERAfter winning the title we had to prepare for a summer that was going to be very busy. And since we had to skip our holidays, Dimitris decided to knock on the board's door and ask for a rise. Mr Papaioannu was very generous and double our curre...
VENI, VIDI, VICISoooo, the championship pool has come to an end and it went… incredibly well! A great and unexpected success that lead our charge towards the title! AEK litteraly collapsed during this round and fell off what seemed to be an eas...
RIGHT FIRST TIME AROUND The first game as an opponent against Ilioupoli was very heavy emotionally, but very easily won. We didn't let the emotions run too high and did our job excellently. The return leg was even better. Despite being the...
FIRST STEPS IN OUR NEW SHOESWe are roughly 300km away from our previeus home, and are about to embark on a new league. It's true that we have better facilities to embark on such journey, but as the saying goes: “Whoever leaves the old road for the new kno...
I'M NOT DONE IN GREECE! It was a tough choice, but in the end I made it. I decided to stay in greece, and try to compete in SuperLeague 1. The new team of Dimitris Kalinakis is Panetolikos! The objective is to finish mid-table, and to do so we h...
THE BIG GAME We have clinched promotion, but the season is not over. It's actually climaxing right now, with the big final of the Greek Cup. The opponent is much bigger than us, with better facilities, better reputation, better finances and, of cours...
UP WE GOOFI Creta was a tough match up, a scabby team that never takes the leg out of the tackle. The skill level is pretty equal, we can be considered a bit worse, but it's mostly level. What made the difference in both legs was the morale, we were at th...
I'M NOT LEAVINGLike the true Wolf of Ilioupoli, Dimitris used the offer as leverage to get an improved offer from the board. 2k€ more per year, but a 20% increase in case of promotion. Dimitris is putting his money where his mouth is! Let's go...
JACKRABBIT STARTLast time we left saying that we were about to face a very complicated game. Well, guess I underestimated my guys. We won 3-0 and went on to have a perfect month of October, despite the superdense schedule! The first, and only, loss was ag...
BLANK PAGE, THE NEW ILIOUPOLIIn this offseason we lost the entirety of our team. Most of them left on a free due to their contract expiry, others went to other team (for no fee). This gave me a very nice range to operate and build a team behind my tactic....
FINISHING THE FIRST SEASONWith this update we will finish up the first year of Dimitris' career. The promotion pool in which we achieved a place played out pretty nicely. At home we performed very well, with the exception of Kallithea that dominated us. T...
FINISHING UP THE FIRST PHASE Let's just pull the sick tooth out. The story of the season, our deep run in the cup, was brutally interrupted by Panathinaikos. We stood no chance, and we ended up losing 10-3 on aggregate. Despite the huge loss, we can...
EARLY MASTERPIECE With January comes the market, and we received a very good bid for Franco Costa. The financial situation is not alarming, but is not very good either, and around 50k come in handy. Efcharistó dear Franco, hope you enjoyed your 6mont...
Thank you Bigmatt! THE FIRST MONTHS I know that the greek second division is one of the biggest leagues in the world, but let me take a couple of minutes to explain the structure and the functioning to the few that are not familiar with it. Firs...
MEET THE TEAM Ilioupoli has a team that is predicted to finish in the middle of the league, and with only one spot available for promotion we can safely expect not to be involved in the promotion battle. The board is much more pessimistic than me, an...
THE LAST GREEK HERO Dimitris Kalinakis Dimitris is just a random guy from Ilioupoli, in the suburbs of Athens. He just became manager of the local team, Ilioupoli FC which competes in the second division of the Greek football pyramid. ...
A little journeyman adveture to wait for FM25
Since we are supposed to travel the world i think the Pentagon will be another objective of the carreer.Right now we finished strong in Asia, winning whatever we could in Japan and in the Philippines. Before moving to Africa, in the Kenyan Premier League,...
The basic idea behind this carreer is to only work in cities that are included in the band of El Professor in the tv series “La Casa de Papel” or “Money Heist” in English. The cities are the following:Europe:PalermoLisbonBerlinMoscowStockholmHelsinki...
A carreer following in the various cities chosen as aliases from the memeber of the band
Majestic work Dave, thank you!
Hi guys! Can someone make a sick version of this logo? The team name is Malcesine FC and it was founded in 1958 so it would be superb to have both the name and the date in the logo. The team colours are red and white. If you even co...
CHAPTER 2.13: THE ASIAN CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Our win streak in the A-League was almost embarassing. Since I came to Australia we played 36 games and we won 31, drew 4 and lost 1, with two trophies in the middle. But everything was about to change, probab...
CHAPTER 2.12: THE ADELAIDE OVAL Everything was ready, the entire FA commettee was present and the final was about to start. We were playing in the Adelaide Oval, an incredible, modern stadium, mainly used for cricket and australian football matches,...
CHAPTER 2.11: MY FIRST TIME Our heads went straight to the semifinal. Between this game and the quarter finals passed around twenty days, so we worked hard on the training pitch to get ready for this semi. The last time we faced Western United was fo...
CHAPTER 2.10: CLASSMATES The downside of the FFA Cup is that you basically play an official game only once every 2-3 weeks, so to keep the match fitness up you have to play a lot of friendlies. Spring is finally beginning so managing training is gett...
CHAPTER 2.9: PICKING UP FROM WHERE WE LEFT As I said already the Australian football season begins with the domestic cup, called FFA Cup. Brisbane Roar never won this cup, but closed as runner-ups in 2021.The cup is not very prestigious, but, since t...
CHAPTER 2.8: NEW SEASON, NEW ME As I said once I started here this nation is incredibly balanced. So the fact that we won last season doesn't mean we are the favourite to win again. I mean, the media predict us to finish on top, but that's not the po...
CHAPTER 2.7: COLD SHOWER Charlotte didn't answer. She just stood there with the eyes wide open, frightened. Shit I don't like that, why isn't she saying anything? Everyone in the lockeroom is looking right at us. “Giacomino, maybe we should talk abou...
CHAPTER 2.6: THE GRAND FINAL We did it, we reached the most illustrous game in Australian football: the Grand Final of the A League. Just as the odds predicted the two top finisher of the regular season, Brisbane Roar and Melburne Victory, will face...
CHAPTER 2.5: WIN OR GO HOME After the win in the regular season I booked a one night out just to keep my minds off football. All the player were given a free day as a gift for their incredible run so I made Michele to book a very romantic hotel in Br...
CHAPTER 2.4: THE LAST GAME OF REGULAR SEASON I've been in Australia for a little less than 4 months and now I'm already running for the regular season title here at Brisbane. We had an incredible run so far and we aldready managed to climb from the 9...
CHAPTER 2.3: DOUBLE DIGIT RUN This last month has been incredible. We had nother 15 days of pause for the international break and I used them to get to know Brisbane a little bit better and to start living it for real. I've been going a lot of...
CHAPTER 2.2: GETTING USED TO THE AUSTRALIAN WAY After the home win against Melbourne Victory we had a 20 days pause, in which I finally had chance to settle in. My house started looking much better with all the packs opened. I had a decorator manage...
CHAPTER 2.1: FRENETIC START I was officialy appointed on the 30th of december 2022. The schedule of the team for January was pretty dense so I just jumped in the role, without having the chance to relly get to know the players or to fully understand...
CHAPTER 2: HEAR US ROAR So did you guess it? Our new team is Brisbane Roar FC, in the Australian A League! I was contacted by the former chiarman of Brisbane Roar who is the Indonesian Rahim Soekasah. Before buying this club he was in the board of bo...
CHAPTER 1.25: TREBLE TROUBLE After the burning loss in the AFC Final I just dove into work. We had a great couple of months to close the season that allowed us to really pursue the domestic treble (commuity shield, Liga 1 and Piala). We will start fr...
CHAPTER 1.24: THE FINAL We were minutes away from the biggest match of my life. We had prepared this game to the tiniest detail, and practiced to exaustion every aspect of our gameplan. When I stepped in the lockeroom I saw everyone's eyes bruning wi...
CHAPTER 1.23: THE BUILD UP TO THE AFC FINAL So yeah, we won in India and now we will play the biggest match of my life in just about 1 month time. But before that we have to play in Liga 1 and in Piala Indonesia. We want to win both competitions so o...
CHAPTER 1.22: THE INDIAN EXPEDITION Today I will only bring here the Interzone final. I will give you news about our Indonesian campaing in the next updates. As has become custom we will play the first game of the two legs away, in the wonderful city...
CHAPTER 1.21: THE TAJIK TRIP The engagment in all these competitions we are a part of is really messing up our schedule. In Indonesia we won easily the round of 64 of Piala Indonesia against Persijap Jepara, a team playing in Divisi Utama, and got a...